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Is StarCraft II Killing Graphics Cards?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wish-i-had-a-copy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of the more curious trends emerging from last week's StarCraft II launch is people alleging that the game kills graphics cards.The between-mission scenes onboard Jim Raynor's ship aren't framerate capped. These are fairly static scenes, and don't take much work for the graphics card to display them. Because of this, the card renders the scene as quickly as possible, which then taxes your graphics card as it works to its full potential. As the pipelines within your graphics card work overtime, the card will heat up and if it can't cope with that heat it will crash."

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  1. Short answer: No by mike2R · · Score: 5, Funny

    Long answer: NOOOoooooooooooooooo!!!!!

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  2. Re:Ridiculous. by V!NCENT · · Score: 5, Funny

    $ glxgears
    5791 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1158.177 FPS
    7120 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1423.968 FPS
    6801 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1360.132 FPS
    7110 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1421.871 FPS

    Nope. No meltdown. Totally BS...

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  3. Re:My guess? Users need to STFU by the_other_chewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their PSU is inadequate for their card. High end graphics cards need a lot of voltage on the 12v rail.

    I'd say they need 12V of voltage on the 12V rail...